12/97

Campus Team:

Armando Arias	Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs and Dean, Center for Social and Behavioral Sciences
Jay Cobb	Interim Coordinator, Multiple Subject CLAD/BCLAD Credential
Dell Felder	Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs
William Franklin	Director, Liberal Studies
Joe Larkin	Assistant Vice President, Academic Development
Dorothy Lloyd (Team Leader)	Dean, Center for Collaborative Education and Professional Studies
Josina Makau	Dean, Center for Arts, Human Communication and Creative Technologies
Marsha Moroh	Dean, Center for Science Technology and Information Resources

A long term goal and three short term goals were established at the Conference and reaffirmed upon our return to the campus:

Long Term Goal and our Highest Priority:

Infusing the scholarship of teaching across the entire campus (All programs).

Short Term Goals:

(1) Develop a fully integrated and "seamless" liberal studies/field-based teacher education outcomes based curriculum and assessment system

(2) Implement adequate student advising and support systems

(3) Improve connections to community colleges and K-12

All the above initiatives are in early stages of development now, and further efforts to achieve the above goals are underway, with the exception of the program for emergency credential teachers. We need leadership, faculty commitment, time, and stability of resources. Our success will depend on the stability of our commitment, broad-based buy-in, and student involvement and satisfaction.

Since returning from the Conference, The eight member campus team (listed above)has become the Steering Committee for our campus effort of strengthening teacher education at the undergraduate level. The eight member has made a commitment to assume collective leadership and responsibility to dialogue among ourselves, then with the campus community regarding what we are doing and/or should be doing to strengthen the undergraduate years to move us closer to our goals.

NEXT STEPS:

The eight member steering committee will be expanded in January to include teacher education/Liberal Studies faculty and our current point persons for each major: Earth Systems Science and Policy; Mathematics; Telecommunications, Multimedia and Applied Computing; Global Learning; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Arts, Human Communication, and Creative Technologies; World Languages and Culture; and Collaborative Community Studies. The expanded group will be known as the Teacher Education Council.

Early in January, the Steering Committee will meet to plan the first three hour meeting of the Teacher Education Council (to be held later in January). The meeting agenda will include: 1) a presentation and discussion on the Scholarship of the Teaching Faculty Development Program that is currently underway in the Institute for Earth Systems Science and Policy, 2) establish three work groups - one for each of the short-term goals listed above, and 3) Determine some next steps in our work toward the long term goal listed above.

If additional resources were to become available they would be utilized for:

(1) Faculty development to improve pedagogy and infuse the scholarship of teaching throughout the university.

(2) Piloting three programs:

• a 4-year liberal studies/field-based teacher education program for residential student cohorts that incorporated the core values of CSUMB, which includes outcomes-based education, interdisciplinarity, multiculturalism, service-learning in schools, and induction through the proseminar;

• partnership with community college on 2+3 program;

• partnership with K-12 school districts on a field-based electronically mediated program for emergency credential teachers.
  

If N0 additional resources become available:

We will reallocate available resources as possible, and seek external funding to move in the above directions.

We have the infrastructure that will facilitate the 4+1 residential program and the 2+2+1 emergency credential with community college partnerships.